To be sick of all the 'gin' shit everywhere?

[WilburIsSomePig]

Gin hotels, gin tasting events, gin signs and mugs all over the bloody place.

Last year it was Prosecco, year before I think it was Pimms. Oh and I love gin but FFS all this marketing towards middle aged women (like me) gets on my tits.

Yes I probably am being unreasonable but FFS, there's even one of these >>>> now!

Olivine Yes! When people ask me why I don't drink I'm tempted to make up various reasons.

I don't really drink gin. I drink most other things though.
People never buy me twee gifts sadly, I get things like hip flasks with crude messages or Homer Simpson chiller mugs.
I am a petite woman, make up, heels etc. It must be the potty mouth.

I don't like gun flavour stuff. It tasted of artificial juniper. Sweets, tea etc. Yuk.

Yup I hate all those products but as an Etsy seller feel like I'm (or my crafting colleagues) that are part of the problem so don't want to be too harsh! The independent businesses sort of started this "quirky personalized goods" thing and its snowballed. I don't like it though. I like me a drink but I'm not having a plaque in my kitchen with it on.

This pisses me off. Some people like gin, some of them a lot. They like the gin tastings and the hotels and the mugs and shit. If you don't, don't buy it, it really is that simple.

Whinging that other people are able to have things that they like is just churlish and mean.

I've only just discovered , I was firmly in the camp until about 3 months ago. Then at Christmas I got a gin tasting kit from Sains and it was just bloody lovely. Haven't looked back since. However, I do see that it's everywhere at the moment, but I personally am not annoyed about it.

I thought gin was aimed more at 20-something hipster professionals with well-cultivated beards living in Shoreditch

Also, people were talking about Zombie earlier... a quick Google gave me this thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/other_subjects/1952054-Why-Zombie-is-Zombie-the-backstory

She seems lovely

Horrible, depressing drink.

As its AIBU... Maybe YABU, slightly, but I do agree that companies have jumped on the band wagon, as with prosecco. But I also love prosecco

First time DM met DF's family she had gin. Promptly burst into tears and never had it again.

I like vodka... vanilla vodka. I don't want a mug, cup, glass, pen, picture or anything else in my house apart from the bottle itself. Just like I like ready salted crisps, radox shower gel and marmalade too... same applies I don't need the marketed crap to remind me of what I like.

I hate anything which involves normalisation and glamorisation of alcohol.never really thought about it much until confronted by someone's alcoholism it really is everywhere. I doubt I'll ever drink again.

I love gin. I like the emoticon.

I would not want gin candles, GINdependent slogan t-shirts or wooden gin signs, YANBU.

But why does the fact that you don't want to buy the crap mean that you don't think it should be available to those who do?
I don't want to buy any of it either, but I really can't understand why other people happily buying such shite has anything to do with me.....

I hate gin

Well, those that bought the crap unfortunately gave it all to OP, ImFuckingSpartacus. It is a bit weird, this unprompted gin theme.

Mmm gin....

I'm with you OP and I agree about the marketing towards middle aged women. I am a middle aged woman and I've been drinking gin and tonic or very dry Martini as my spirit of choice since I was 19, I don't need to have is marketed at me thanks, I already know all about it. What irks me even more though are the young people who act like they discovered the bloody stuff and think that drinking it makes them some sort of cool hipster type instead of a middle aged normal like me.

And I am increasingly irritated by all the ridiculous gin and tonic flavoured food recipes I keep seeing now. It's a wonderful drink but gin and tonic battered onion rings? Gin and tonic cake? No thanks, just gimmicky bandwagon jumping nonsense.

FrenchLavender, like this: www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Judes-Gin--Tonic-Dairy-Ice-Cream/285934011?siteId=36007&utm_source=commission+junction&utm_medium=affiliate&ULP_CAMPAIGN_ID=10&utm_campaign=Affiliate%2BActivity&dnr=y&utm_content=digidip_3743973&utm_term=www.ocado.com

Mothers ruin

Apparently granny necked it in a hot bath while pregnant

I dont think i like gin although i did get very drunk on it in amsterdam. That was proper dutch gin so i dont know if that made a difference....and i was drinking it neat from midnight til 6am...

I've loved gin for years. I remember people used to turn their nose up at it and mock me for drinking gin on a night out. Same people have jumped on the bandwagon and inviting me to gin bars and gin tasting nights. Really bugs me for some reason.

This a million times. I've been drinking gin every since I went through my parents drinks cabinet to work out which drink would be mine. Gin beat off the vodka, whisky, sherry and drambuie so it's been gin for 30 years. It was either an old persons drink or a golf club drink in them days. Until people tried it. I converted loads of people- of which I'm proud. Now if I'm out I make a point of asking for Gordons and non feverfew tonic (it makes me boak). Though the Eden Mill Chilli and Ginger gin is a thing of exquisite deliciousness.

I had a sloe gin and prosecco cocktail recently! Best of both 😃

Its mainly alcohol really, but the variances are just subtle enough to make a difference to final flavour depending on how or when they are added and over what period of time.

Gin is herbs and other botanicals including citrus fruits added to the purest vodka, whisky is peat (heather or seaweed madam?) and smoke and storage, rum is the ageing process in wood and other factors based on the sugar cane variety and its age, vodka is the most pure of the four in that it attempts to filter out all impurities. Flavours are then added in so in some ways gins take the process a little further but in a way that has defined a drink in its own right. That is how I understand it.